AND PORTO SANTO. 



9.5 



excellent green tea, new cakes, and old packs of cards every 

 evening ; with the view, as she archly termed it, of civiUzing the 

 officers of the mihtia a little, amongst whom the Serjeants were 

 included. She was not handsome, but of very ladyhke and 

 agreeable manners, and full of entertaining conversation. Having 

 groped our way to the government house, we were quitted at the 

 portal by a small mob of the humbler friends and acquaintances 

 we had made in the town, (the Genoese in the course of his daily 

 trade, and I amongst the fishermen) strumming the following 

 chords on their guitars (which form the accompaniment to all the 

 national songs of both islands), 



v==r=te 



Sb^i^^^ 



all evidently envying us the proud distinction we were on the eve 

 of enjoying, 



videbit 



Permixtos heroas, et ipse videbitur illis ; 



and whispering a hear-say detail of the pomp and ceremony we 

 should encounter within ; the more thriving, dropping sly hints 

 that they were not without the ambitious hope of " jostling with 

 these gods," and sipping the same nectar, before they died. We 

 had first of all, which was not a little difficult, when the whole of 

 the coiu-t was assembled there, to squeeze into the governor's 

 library, where we generally found them discussing the informaUties 

 of some Serjeant's warrant or commission, the fragments of a 

 Madeira gazette, a month old (which had probably been wrapped 



